Jean Moorcroft Wilson and William Graves to Discuss New Graves Biography at the Wimbledon Bookfest, 11 October 2018

Jean Moorcroft Wilson and William Graves to Discuss New Graves Biography at the Wimbledon Bookfest, 11 October 2018

10Aug

Dr Jean Moorcroft Wilson’s new biography of Robert Graves in the years 1895 – 1929, a period which included Graves joining the Army as an officer at the age of 19 at the outbreak of the First World War, his near-death from wounds during the Battle of the Somme, his marriage to Nancy Nicholson and the births of their four children, study at Oxford, and the many tumultuous events that followed after he met the American poet Laura Riding in January 1926, was published on 2 August 2018.

Jean Moorcroft Wilson and Graves’s son William Graves (from Robert’s second marriage, to Beryl Pritchard), will be examining Robert Graves’s position as a major First World War poet as well as a master prose chronicler of the War, at this year’s Wimbledon BookFest. Their talk will be on Thursday 11th October 2018 at 4.30 – 5.30 pm and the hour will include the presentation of the second Robert Graves Poetry Prize.